Durango, Colorado’s Historic Strater Hotel is absolutely world renown with its heritage, cowboy spirit and feel. My absolute favorite author would lock himself into the now famous Louis LaMour suite for three or four days and come out with a book like The Sacketts or Conagher. He liked it because of the Rinky Tink sounding piano at Diamond Belles, the first floor saloon at the Strater.

Linda Campbell (the Senator’s wife) told us last night that she is friends with Louis Lamour’s wife Kathy and that their farm…dang….. forgot …out West they are all called Ranches… Well anyway, the Lamour Ranch is close to Durango. I was impressd.. Cowboys are an important part of American history, and Louis Lamour documented a bunch of that history with amazingly accurate fiction.

Durango is located in the FOUR Corners of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona. After leaving at our 830 start time…. We rallyed through ALL FOUR STATES..

Our speedo calibration was weird yesterday. It was in two parts. I should have left the speedo alone (now in retrospect) BUT I didn’t. I saw .6 seconds fast per 10 run so I slowed the car down by 3.6 seconds per hour. We got a 28 seconds and worked our dang tail off doing it all day. I factored for loss of elevation. I factored for tire growth at 50 mph. Rallied perfectly. It was REALLY frustrating coming in to that score after working so hard all day.

It was a very hard day. I think that if I had not have changed the speedo, we would have gotten around a 15 or 16 for the day.

Bruce and Curtis got something around 13 I think. That ole Packard keeps on chugging. But not without a lot of attention from Doctor Graf!

The reception at Page, AZ was okay, just mediocre. We were able to roll off to our hotels by 8 PM and Theresa and I were ready for bed! We saw fireworks out our window before we sacked out. God bless America.

Wednesday we will have a very LONG day with over 500 miles across the Nevada desert! I hope we make it. Andrew and Jerry have to leave Page at 515 AM.

Carol Gezon came through! We got cookies! Thanks Carol!

From the road,

Corky

P.S.

I finished this update before the alarm went off Wed AM July 5. The alarm just went off. Theresa got up and said “its Ground Hog Day”. Meaning the movie with Bill Murray where he makes the same mistakes over and over again and he goes to bed and he wakes up the next day and its Ground Hog Day allover again.